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Understanding users' behaviours in relation to concentrated boarding : implications for rail infrastructure and technology
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Fox, Catherine, Oliveira, Luis, Kirkwood, Leigh and Cain, Rebecca (2017) Understanding users' behaviours in relation to concentrated boarding : implications for rail infrastructure and technology. In: Gao, James and El Souri, Mohammed and Keates, Simeon, (eds.) Advances in Transdisciplinary Engineering. Advances in Transdisciplinary Engineering, 6 . Amsterdam, Netherlands: IOS Press, pp. 120-125. ISBN 9781614997917
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/978-1-61499-792-4-120
Abstract
Concentrated boarding describes the phenomenon when rail passengers congregate in certain areas of the platform, such as at main entrances and staircases. This influences the distribution of passengers throughout the carriages, which can negatively affect passenger comfort, safety at the platform train interface, efficiency of the rail network, and the reputation of rail travel as a whole. This project aimed to determine whether concentrated boarding occur in rail stations in the UK in order to understand its relevance for future rolling stock and infrastructure design and its associated manufacturing research. Video recording technology was used to observe the movements of passengers in Oxford Station, and data was collected for nine trains. By reviewing the recordings, the number of passengers boarding through each door of the trains was determined, and the boarding distributions along the length of the platform were plotted. Several reasons for noted trends were offered, and potential solutions proposed. The use of real time information could be invaluable to minimise concentrated boarding, as it would allow passengers to make informed decisions as to where they could board trains to have a better journey experience. These findings indicate the relevance of a human-centred design process, particularly the user research stages in the process of defining priorities for manufacturing and engineering.
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| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HE Transportation and Communications Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA76 Electronic computers. Computer science. Computer software T Technology > TF Railroad engineering and operation |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Engineering > WMG (Formerly the Warwick Manufacturing Group) | |||||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Railroad stations, Railroad stations -- Designs and plans , Railroad stations -- Computer simulation, Railroads -- Passenger traffic, Railroads -- Commuting traffic, Commuters , Passenger trains , Railroads -- Passenger traffic, Pedestrian traffic flow -- Computer simulation | |||||||||
| Series Name: | Advances in Transdisciplinary Engineering | |||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Advances in Transdisciplinary Engineering | |||||||||
| Publisher: | IOS Press | |||||||||
| Place of Publication: | Amsterdam, Netherlands | |||||||||
| ISBN: | 9781614997917 | |||||||||
| Book Title: | Advances in Transdisciplinary Engineering | |||||||||
| Editor: | Gao, James and El Souri, Mohammed and Keates, Simeon | |||||||||
| Official Date: | 2017 | |||||||||
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| Volume: | 6 | |||||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 120-125 | |||||||||
| Status: | Not Peer Reviewed | |||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | |||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | |||||||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 18 September 2017 | |||||||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 7 November 2017 | |||||||||
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| Conference Paper Type: | Paper | |||||||||
| Title of Event: | 15th International Conference on Manufacturing Research ICMR 2017 | |||||||||
| Type of Event: | Conference | |||||||||
| Location of Event: | Greenwich, London, UK | |||||||||
| Date(s) of Event: | 05-07 Sept 2017 | |||||||||
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